Moab

We decided we loved camping so much that we decided to go a couple weeks later with our friends Jon Matthew and Megan. They live in Price, Ut so we drove down to see them one Friday after school and after seeing their cute apartment we loaded up the truck and drove to Moab. Friday night when we got there we still had quite a bit of daylight, so we decided to check out Arches. We hiked to some arches they call the windows or something and had fun walking around and taking pictures.

After that, we drove around until we found a spot to camp in Moab, which was pretty hard because it was dark and there were a billion people in Moab that weekend. We drove down by a river and through a canyon and around and around until we found the perfect spot. The boys made a fire then Megan and I started cooking our dinner, potatoes and salmon. After camp was set up and the food was ready we all ate and laughed. We hadn't seen each other for a long time and it was fun to catch up.

The next morning we packed up camp after a delicious breakfast and headed back to Arches. We started our hike to Delicate Arch. I got a little scared on the hike because I'm afraid of heights when I'm not strapped into a harness or something, but Josh calmed me down and helped me make it. After he snapped this lovely picture of me freaking out.

It was the weirdest thing. I was fine hiking up the trail and then all of a sudden I looked down at where we'd just been. That was my first mistake. My legs started to shake, I got light headed and I had to sit down. After a while of sitting there with Josh trying to calm me down and convince me to keep going, I started to feel a little foolish. Watching little kids literally running up the trail only added to my embarrassment...

We kept on going and we got to a part where if you climb up a little bit off the trail you can see Delicate Arch through a smaller arch and we took pictures there. We were standing just under the one arch and that's Delicate Arch behind us.

There was just a little bit of hike left after this. After we took this picture and were getting ready to hike again, a couple walked up behind us and sat down. The woman was really red and looked like she was about to pass out and was a little hysterical. I was drinking from my water bottle and the man with her said, "If you have another one of those I'll give you a million dollars for it." I felt bad for the lady because I had a little hysterical episode earlier, so I just gave them another bottle out of our pack and said, "No charge." That was my second mistake. I think a million dollars would add a nice touch to our bank account. After that, we hiked a little farther and finally made it to Delicate Arch.

As you can tell, its huge. It's so amazing to think that it just formed there like that. It was so cool to see it and then walk under it and look around at all the other red rock and the different formations.